Guests: John Batchelor, Bill Harwood, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Jeff Bezos and the Blue Moon Lander project, his recent press conference & returning to the Moon. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show programming. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are not permitted without prior written consent from...

Guest: Emily Carney; Topics: The Space Hipsters Group on Facebook, Space Hipsters behind the scenes, the Hipsters and space policy plus Emily starting up Space Hipsters.
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Guest: Dr. Linda Spilker; Topics; New information on Saturn's ring system, Titan, Enceladus, liquid methane oceans, life, NASA missions and more.
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Guest: Dr. Robert Zubrin; topics: Bob's new book, "The Case For Space: How The Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up A Future OF Limitless Possibility, the Gateway, lunar return, Mars, policy, China, Pell Grant funding and more.
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Guests: Kim Holder, John Jossy, Rick Kwan; Topics: Space Access Society Conference 2019, speaker and topic highlights, technologies, key people in attendance, Blue Moon, Bezos space vision and more.
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Guest: Dr. Madhu Thangalevu; Topics, Lunar return policy & mission needs/planning, ISDC Moon Track, using space for better living on Earth and much more.
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Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. David Kipping, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Finding exomoons, candidate Kepler 1625B, exoplanets and more. You are invited to comment, ask questions, and discuss the Space Show program/guest(s) on the Space Show blog. Comments, questions, and any discussion must be relevant and applicable to Space Show programming. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are not permitted without prior written consent from The Space Show (even if for personal...

Guest: Robert (Bob) Zimmerman; Topics: We discussed a variety of topics starting with the smallsat industry with launchers and ending with comments about the Boeing 737 Max and possible Boeing space impact. See tags for an idea of all topics discussed.
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Guest: Dr. Greg Autry; Topics: We focused on three topics: The upcoming ISDC Conference, space budgets, spending and the US national debt, and the Chinese space and lunar policy plus US concerns about China and space and the Mon.
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Guest: Leonard David followed by Open Lines. Topics: Leonard's new book "Moon Rush, policy and budget challenges for returning to the Moon, presidential candidates and space policy, Navy-Air Force UFO policy reporting changes and more.
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Guest: Marcia Smith; Topics: space policy, NASA budgets, returning to the Moon, lunar return costs and policy, the congressional budget process and more.
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Guest: Bruno Mombrinie; Topics: The Metro Hop concept and plan for a fixed wing eVTOL passenger and cargo commercial plane service. See a https://metrohop.aero and their video.
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Guest: Michael Ciancone: Topics: Foreword to Spaceflight" bibliography, 2019 IAC Washington, DC, Glenn Memorial Symposium, European Service Module for the Orion Program, service module integration, & more.
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Guest: Umberto Cavallaro; Topics: "The Race To The Moon Chronicled In Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks" by our guest, documenting early space history through stamps, USSR propaganda, US stamp approach and more.
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Guests: John Batchelor, Rand Simberg, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Returning to the Moon by 2024!
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Guest: Jeff Smith; Topics: Building a better booster per Jeff's two part series in The Space Review from Feb. 2019. We also talked rocket and booster history, returning to the Moon and more.
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Guest: Daniel Suarez; Topics: Daniel's new science fiction novel, "Delta-v." deep space mining, space economics, commercial space, policy and regulations, government space activities, risk taking, lunar return, Mars and much much more.
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Guest: Open Lines with Dr. David Livingston; Topics: This was a last minute Open Lines program as our planned guest had a last minute change of plans. Our topics included the 2024 lunar timetable, FH barge recovery, Griffith Observatory public interest
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Guest: Jay Wittner; Topics: The Integrated Space Plan, human spaceflight development now and into the future, the why The Space Plan and human spaceflight is essential.
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Guest: Kim Holder; Topics: Moonwards.com news and update. Returning to the Moon, the Moon as a virtual world and more.
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